// open source is more than stars

Not famous. Not abandoned. Just building.

SilentStars tracks 169 open source projects that are actively built but chronically undervalued. No hype. No trending algorithms. Just signal.

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169 projects tracked
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169 actively building
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121 solo builders
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★ 8.5k combined stars

// Top picks

Highest signal-to-reach ratio — building more than their audience knows.

Thriving Thriving Ruby RB HTML HT
↑ 82
domgen realityforge/domgen

Domgen generates code from a simple domain model leaving the developer to focus on implementing high-value features of the application.

HEALTH 88 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// legacy hero// fork magnet
05-2010 today realityforge
6 ★6
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// Shipping

5+ releases in 90 days — these teams don't stop.

Newborn Newborn Python PY
↑ 38
ha-world-cup-2026 Adya84/ha-world-cup-2026

⚽ Home Assistant World Cup 2026 integration with live fixtures, results, standings, statistics, predictions and a ready-to-import dashboard.

HEALTH 93 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// funded// release machine
06-2026 today Adya84
1 ★94
Newborn Newborn LE Python PY
↑ 48
unsorry agenticsnz/unsorry

Autonomous agents proving theorems in Lean 4 - SETI@Home but for maths proofs using LLMs. Git is the queue, the kernel is the gate, no sorry survives.

HEALTH 93 / Healthy
// help wanted// hidden gem// release machine
06-2026 today github-actions[bot]
★33
Thriving Thriving Python PY TypeScript TS
↑ 52
Geny CocoRoF/Geny

Autonomous multi-agent system — manage multiple agent sessions, orchestrate autonomous tasks, and visualize it all in a 3D city playground.

HEALTH 90 / Healthy
// solo// release machine
02-2026 today CocoRoF
1 ★7
Thriving Thriving Shell SH Python PY
↑ 71
claude-agent-team ek33450505/claude-agent-team

CAST: Local-first orchestration framework for Claude Code. Implements hook-driven dispatch, isolated agent memory, and deterministic policy gates.

HEALTH 100 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// funded// release machine
03-2026 today ek33450505
★5
Newborn Newborn Python PY
↑ 58
James-RAG-Evol Hashevolution/James-RAG-Evol

🔐 Replayable RAG — a local-first, auditable knowledge-reasoning platform. Graph-RAG + append-only audit log + deterministic contradiction arbitration + human-gated self-evolution. Replay any past knowledge state byte-for-byte. 100% local (Ollama). MIT.

HEALTH 99 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// release machine
05-2026 today Hashevolution
1 ★17
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// Help wanted

The maintainer labelled the door open. Time to walk in.

Thriving Thriving Python PY HTML HT
↑ 61
Website emfcamp/Website

The Electromagnetic Field web site

HEALTH 95 / Healthy
// help wanted// hidden gem// legacy hero// fork magnet
01-2012 today russss
16 ★50
Thriving Thriving JavaScript JS
↑ 57
docs layer5io/docs

Documentation and Developer resources for Layer5 products

HEALTH 96 / Healthy
// help wanted// hidden gem// fork magnet
10-2023 today l5io
5 ★91
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// Under pressure

Healthy project, overwhelmed solo team. Worth saving.

Thriving Thriving TypeScript TS
↑ 31
nowen-note cropflre/nowen-note

开源自托管笔记与私有知识库，支持 Markdown/富文本、AI 写作、思维导图、任务管理、全文搜索、多级笔记本和 Docker 一键部署。

HEALTH 92 / Healthy
// solo// release machine// under pressure
02-2026 today cropflre
2 ★257
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// Solo builders

One person carrying it all. No team. No VC. Just commits.

Thriving Thriving Python PY
↑ 72
everyday_epg_update Lorax121/everyday_epg_update

Ежедневно обновляемое зеркало EPG-файлов из публичных источников для пользователей, которые испытывают проблемы с загрузкой с оригинальных сайтов (epg.one, iptvx.one и др.).

HEALTH 80 / Healthy
// solo
06-2025 today github-actions[bot]
★6
Thriving Thriving C# C#
↑ 72
Fyx-Cryptocurrency-Form-eCommerce-Crypto-Payment-Api-Blockchain-Network Xendriuo/Fyx-Cryptocurrency-Form-eCommerce-Crypto-Payment-Api-Blockchain-Network

open-source application with which merchants can accept in-person cryptocurrency payments.A payment gateway like Stripe for cryptocurrencies.Cryptocurrency Payment System that accepts payments in Bitcoin ,Ethereum and Litecoin for any E-commerce type site

HEALTH 80 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem
05-2025 today Xendriuo
★5
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// Legacy heroes

5+ years old and still committing. Resilience over hype.

Thriving Thriving Shell SH
↑ 60
asdf-vm-bot joschi/asdf-vm-bot

Post availability of new plugins and new candidate versions for the asdf version manager to Mastodon and Twitter.

HEALTH 80 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// legacy hero
11-2020 today joschi
★12
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// Fork magnets

More forks than stars — used as a building block, not just bookmarked.

Thriving Thriving JavaScript JS CSS CS
↑ 48
awesome-github-repos tonngw/awesome-github-repos

🚀 A curated collection of awesome GitHub repositories, organized by language and topic from my starred projects. Modern, elegant platform for showcasing your starred GitHub repositories.

HEALTH 70 / Stable
// solo// hidden gem// fork magnet
07-2025 today tonngw
★49
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// Watched

Devs are tracking these before the public notices.

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// Funded

Financially supported. Committed to shipping long-term.

Thriving Thriving JavaScript JS HTML HT
↑ 57
KoalaSync Shik3i/KoalaSync

Minimalist, privacy-first synchronized video playback for YouTube, Netflix, Emby, and general HTML5. Built with pure Vanilla JS and a Node.js relay.

HEALTH 100 / Healthy
// hidden gem// funded// release machine
04-2026 today Shik3i
★20
Thriving Thriving TypeScript TS
↑ 47
GitNexus Bd-Mutant7/GitNexus

GitNexus: The Zero-Server Code Intelligence Engine - GitNexus is a client-side knowledge graph creator that runs entirely in your browser. Drop in a GitHub repo or ZIP file, and get an interactive knowledge graph wit a built in Graph RAG Agent. Perfect for code exploration

HEALTH 80 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// funded
03-2026 today Bd-Mutant7
★9
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// Hidden gems

Under 100 stars. Documented. Alive. Look closer.

Thriving Thriving Rust RS
↑ 69
rulesify ydeng11/rulesify

Skill management tool for AI agents - discover and install pre-built workflows from Anthropic, OpenAI, and community sources

HEALTH 97 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem
07-2025 today ydeng11
★12
Thriving Thriving YA
↑ 64
HomeOps binaryn3xus/HomeOps

A mono repository for my home infrastructure and Kubernetes cluster which adheres to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps practices where possible

HEALTH 99 / Healthy
// hidden gem
12-2022 today unsc-oni-ancilla[bot]
★20
Thriving Thriving Haskell HS F*
↑ 64
freest freest-lang/freest

A functional programming language for safe concurrency powered by context-free session types

HEALTH 85 / Healthy
// hidden gem
05-2024 today gatpsilva
6 ★11
Thriving Thriving OC TypeScript TS
↑ 64
masc jeong-sik/masc

MASC - Multi-Agent Streaming Coordination in OCaml

HEALTH 99 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem// release machine
01-2026 today jeong-sik
★6
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// Newborn

Born in the last 2 months, committed in the last 2 weeks — fragile, alive, worth watching.

Newborn Newborn HTML HT Python PY
↑ 20
pm-watcher yixuuuan/pm-watcher

World Cup cross-platform prediction-market pricing monitor — live odds across Polymarket, Kalshi, 42, Manifold & Predict.fun

HEALTH 79 / Stable
// solo// hidden gem
06-2026 today yixuuuan
7 ★45
Newborn Newborn Kotlin KT
↑ 20
suicanfc-kd Kdroidwin/suicanfc-kd

交通系NFCカード Suica 、Pasmo 、ICOCA 、manacaなどの残高や運賃支払い履歴などのデータを読み取り、表示する。

HEALTH 73 / Stable
// solo// hidden gem
06-2026 today Kdroidwin
★9
Newborn Newborn TypeScript TS
↑ 39
QodeX QodeXcli/QodeX

QodeX — a local-first LLM agent & AI coding CLI agent for your terminal. Runs local models (Qwen3-Coder via Ollama/LM Studio) with deterministic guardrails, 100+ tools, a real browser, smart vision & shareable live artifacts. Open source, Apache-2.0.

HEALTH 90 / Healthy
// solo// hidden gem
06-2026 today QodeXcli
12 ★33
Newborn Newborn TypeScript TS
↑ 51
Aivatar-Demo ruiwuniu/Aivatar-Demo

Aivatar is a local-first desktop companion for AI coding agents. It turns Codex, Claude Code, opencode, or a custom local agent bridge into a lively pixel-room companion with selectable characters, upgraded room materials, live status, growth, bits, and room customization.

HEALTH 79 / Stable
// solo// hidden gem// release machine
06-2026 today ruiwuniu
★6
Newborn Newborn Go GO
↑ 46
OpenAlive opn-build/OpenAlive

Prevent Windows from sleeping with silent mouse and keyboard simulation. Lightweight, no-telemetry, 8 languages.

HEALTH 77 / Stable
// solo// hidden gem
05-2026 5d ago capuz
★1
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↑ The Undervalued Score +

How much a project earns versus how much attention it actually gets. Above 50 means the work is outrunning its audience. Recomputed nightly from commit velocity, contributor effort, issue resolution, fork utility, release cadence, and project maturity — divided by a logarithmic reach factor.

score  = signal / reach

signal = 0.25·commit_velocity   // commits in last 90 days (cap 30)
       + 0.20·contributor_work  // unique authors × velocity (cap 100)
       + 0.20·issue_resolution  // closed ÷ total issues
       + 0.20·fork_ratio        // forks ÷ stars (proxy for real usage)
       + 0.10·release_cadence   // releases in 90 days (cap 3)
       + age_bonus              // +0 to +0.30 after 6 months
       + homepage_bonus         // +0.05 if homepage is set

reach  = log₁₀(stars + watchers + 10)█
♥ The Health Score +

Is the project alive and maintained right now? A 0–100 pulse recomputed nightly from commit recency, rhythm, how fast issues close, and how quickly PRs get merged.

health = 0.35·recency       // days since last commit (90d decay)
       + 0.25·cadence       // commit rhythm consistency
       + 0.20·issue_health  // closed ÷ total issues
       + 0.20·pr_health     // merged ÷ total PRs█
◷ Health bands +

The colour and label on every card come straight from the health score.

Healthy   80 – 100   active, responsive, regular releases
Stable    60 – 79    maintained, steady, no alarms
Quiet     40 – 59    slowing down — watch this one
At Risk    0 – 39    going dark · candidate for rescue█
// Tags — what each label means +

Tags are independent behavioral signals computed nightly. A project can hold multiple at once. They drive the home page sections.

solo_builder      one person holds > 80% of commits (last 180d)
needs_contributors has open "help wanted" or "good first issue" labels
hidden_gem        < 100 stars · active in last 3 months · documented
legacy_hero       repo > 5 years old · committed this year
fork_magnet       forks/stars > 0.5 · used as template or dependency
release_machine   5+ releases in the last 90 days
under_pressure    > 10 open issues · ≤ 2 contributors · health ≥ 60
community_watch   watchers > stars · devs tracking before the public
community_hub     GitHub Discussions enabled · > 20 discussions
funded            maintainer has active funding channel█
★ Why rank against stars at all? +

Stars are an outcome, not effort. A project with 8 stars and daily commits is doing more interesting work than one coasting on 8k. We measure the building, then divide by the attention already received — so the genuinely undervalued rise to the top.

// stars   = lagging indicator
// commits = leading indicator
// we rank by the leading one█